Jerry Ardizzone

Innovative Silicon, Inc. is a privately-held, venture-backed memory chips development company. Innovative Silicon specializes in random-access memory technology and Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) devices. Founded by Pierre C. Fazan and Serguei Okhonin in 2002, Innovative Silicon is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Rocksavage Technology, Inc. provides semiconductor intellectual property services. It offers CoReUse is an enterprise class design reuse infrastructure from NXP semiconductors that provides a proven framework for companies to develop and use semiconductor intellectual property. The firm also provides services ranging from commercialization of semiconductor intellectual property and consulting services. The company was founded by Warren Savage in 2004 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

SVF Holdco (UK) Ltd. develops microprocessor technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products. The firm engages in the design of microprocessors, physical intellectual property, related technology and software, and sells development tools for the microprocessors applications. The company was founded by Michael Peter Muller on October 16, 1990 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Motorola, Inc. provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. Motorola is engaged in providing technologies, products and services for mobile phones. Its portfolio includes wireless handsets, wireless accessories, digital entertainment devices, wireless access systems, voice and data communications systems, and enterprise mobility products. The company operates through three business segments, including Mobile Devices Segment, Home and Networks Mobility Segment and Enterprise Mobility Solutions Segment. The Mobile Devices segment designs, manufactures, sells and services wireless handsets with integrated software and accessory products, and licenses intellectual property. The Home and Networks Mobility segment designs, manufactures, sells, installs and services: (i) digital video, Internet Protocol video and broadcast network interactive set-tops, end-to-end video delivery systems, broadband access infrastructure platforms, and associated data and voice customer premise equipment to cable television and telecom service providers, and (ii) wireless access systems, including cellular infrastructure systems and wireless broadband systems, to wireless service providers. The Enterprise Mobility Solutions segment designs, manufactures, sells, installs and services analog and digital two-way radio, voice and data communications products and systems for private networks, wireless broadband systems and end-to-end enterprise mobility solutions to government and public safety agencies, as well as retail, energy and utilities, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare and other commercial customers. Motorola was founded on September 25, 1928 and is headquartered in Schaumburg, IL

Tensilica, Inc. is dedicated to helping its customers successfully to use its processor cores in its SOC designs. Its processor cores are often used in places engineering teams haven't considered using processors before - as a matter of fact, the company specialized in the hardest data-intensive applications. There are so many applications for Tensilica's processors that its customers have helped to become the fastest growing semiconductor IP supplier in 2008, according to the Gartner Group. The company makes some of the fastest, lowest power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores on the market. Its Diamond Standard family of controllers uses its core technology to excel at control plane tasks. Tensilica is the recognized leader in customizable dataplane processors. Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) consist of performance intensive DSP (audio, video, imaging, and baseband signal processing) and embedded RISC processing functions (security, networking, and deeply embedded control). The automated design tools behind all of Tensilica's application-specific processor cores enable rapid customization to meet specific data-plane performance targets. Tensilica's processors power top tier semiconductor companies, innovative start-ups, and system OEMs for high-volume products including mobile phones, consumer electronics devices (including portable media players, digital TV, and broadband set top boxes), computers, and storage, networking and communications equipment.